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Ok, yes, I support actions like these, and they are good for community defense against small civilian fascist groups. There are not the numbers to counter organizations like FBI, DHS, or national guard though. Things are a bit different when the fascist group you're trying to counter is the federal or state government with the will to kill and immunity from their actions.

The left is such a small population in the US, it's irrelevant. If we are to believe Trump's rhetoric, any group that becomes too much of a nuisance will be deemed "the enemy within," and be shot.

Things are quite different. While Trump was in office, he did multiple things that were worse than what Nixon did, and was never forced to leave office. I think our institutions were stronger back then. We didn't have a very good democracy when Hoover was president, and it took many decades for the Voting Rights Act to get passed (which has recently been weakened by SCOTUS, and will probably be weakened much more). I think we'll regress quite a bit. Republicans obviously want more of an autocracy/oligarchy. I think it's a very real possibility we have Russia-style "elections" in the future, and I don't even know how you come back from that. Assuming democracy isn't completely destroyed, it may take many decades of fighting and changing the minds of the people who aren't disenfranchised to get back to where we were. Hell, even civil war is on the table if Trump follows through on some of his more egregious promises (i.e. if he deems Democratic state governments as the "enemy within" and tries to use the military to depose them).

NCalc+ is pretty good. I don't use it for anything complicated though.

Yeah, I agree. I do use Flatpaks, Snaps, and Appimages sometimes if I can't find a suitable deb repo/package. Flatpak is the best out of the three because they do try to avoid too much duplication through runtimes. I also use Docker quite a bit, which has similar issues (and benefits).

.world is a little too block/defederation-happy. I moved from .world to SJW because they blocked a piracy community.

I assume the "kill it" comment was a little tongue-in-cheek. On small SBCs, like a Pi, or old hardware, it could be a problem. I've seen people with flatpaks taking up 30GB of space, which is significant. I'm not sure how much RAM it wastes. I assume running 6 different applications that have loaded 6 different versions of Qt libraries would also use significantly more RAM than just loading the system's shared Qt libraries once.

Wastes RAM and disk space (compared to package-manager installed applications) by storing more libraries on disk and loading them into RAM rather than just using the libraries already installed on the distro. It's probably better than Snap and Appimage though.

Meh, startups and businesses are capitalist organizations, and I think the idea of patents is questionable outside capitalism, so these wouldn't really be a good metrics. I'd guess the richest countries "innovate" the most because they can support more risky endeavors. The U.S. is the capitalist imperial core, so it probably innovates the most. Other capitalist nations like Haiti, probably not so much.

The best measure of innovation would probably be something like scientific publications. China wins by raw numbers, Vatican City wins per-capita (???).

I think some apps allow it, not sure though. You can also move to an instance defederated from .ml if that instance is more aligned with what you'd like to see. You can also just subscribe to communities and not browse "All."

IMO, the U.S. will become similar to Russia. It's not some sudden societal collapse scenario; just an oligarchy with high levels of corruption and incompetence. Most people will conform or keep their heads down to avoid the consequences of stepping out of line. If you're in a possibly targeted group, you may want a valid passport though. And it's always been a good idea to keep at least a months worth of non-perishable food on hand in case of supply chain disruptions. Possibly stuff like emergency propane heaters and a propane tank could be useful too (they've been useful for me in the past already without an authoritarian government or social unrest). Knowing your neighbors and helping eachother out in little ways is probably the most powerful thing though.

Source? First I've heard of anything like this. I'd imagine a lot of things would have to be settled in court given the US's strange laws giving states so much leeway in how they conduct federal elections.